Friday, November 11, 2005
Book Club: Hopefully An Anachronism
by Tom Bozzo
(Yeah, this doesn't mean that a wingnutty wingnut of the Santorum class won't achieve national prominence as the Republicans continue to go Taliban, but sending Little Ricky to the private sector would still be nice.)
Accelerando, which was published last summer, had a long gestation (starting in 1999). One way or another, this bit had almost surely been written and edited before the latest news from the 2006 Senate races:
The free media channels here [Britain] are denser and more richly self-referential than anything he's seen in President Santorum's America. (p. 34)Sends a chill up, then back down, then up your spine again, eh? If there's one thing about the Republicans these days, rehabilitating their electoral losers — well, except as Bush cabinet officials — doesn't seem to be their M.O.
(Yeah, this doesn't mean that a wingnutty wingnut of the Santorum class won't achieve national prominence as the Republicans continue to go Taliban, but sending Little Ricky to the private sector would still be nice.)
